Huh? STDs Make Some Men Feel More Manly

I came across a Swedish study out earlier this week that is just too good to pass up. Get this: a significant number of young men in Sweden consider contracting an STD to be an affirmation of manhood, rather than a serious health issue.

None of the young women in the study (not surprisingly) considered an STD diagnosis as a sign of their "success with the boys." The study did find something both genders had in common: hesitation about using condoms. The young women feared upsetting their partner by asking him to use one, and the young men worried that taking out a condom would make them look as if they assumed they would get lucky that night.

While I don't think we should stigmatize people with STDs, it doesn't seem good for anyone to glorify preventable diseases. Do you find the study's results shocking or predictable?

If they like std's, for our sake, we better hope that they get that russian disease called rotchercockoff.

5 years

"Hey man! I just got chlamydia from this hot girl! I'm so happy ^.^"
"NO WAY MAN!!! I just got Hep C last week!"
"Want to go to the bar?"
"CHYEA.! Case we're SUCH men now."
*facepalm* C'mon now really? I could see it though..people these days are..well...."people"

5 years

This is completely stupid. Anyone who thinks that contracting an STD is a sign of adulthood or manhood is a child! Grow up!

5 years

Yea, it'll be a real sign of manhood when your scabby weenie falls off ;)

5 years

Here you have a very merry

5 years

WTF??????

5 years

Weird, weird, weird. I've had my share of exploits, and it never bothered me to use a condom if the lady asked or we simply needed to. An STD to me is mind blowing, almost gets me running down the halls screaming, & is the LAST thing I ever want in the relationship department. Who are these bizarre a** weirdo's that would take pride in such a thing???

5 years

As a male, I find it disturbing that some women intentionally get pregnant. Thinking that is a way to get married. I can't believe how stupid some guys can be! If there isn't going to be a condom then there will be no F**king!! I could care less if she says she is on the pill. I have zero trust.
Good luck to those who choose to have unprotected sex. :-/
Some STD's can't be cured with a simple shot, and herpes is a gift that keeps on giving.

i wonder if there's an award for aids the monster of a std what kinda shit is this im never going to Sweden they might shoot me for asking the guy to wear a condom idiots smfh

5 years

I guess those Swedish guys have never had a venerial wart burned off with liquid nitrogen.

5 years

You don't seem to get it girls. The man is trying to tell you to think before you jump.

5 years

Well written comentary Greg S. Ever think about running for Massachusetts Senator?

5 years

Well since the human race will be ending itself anyway think of it this way. Those evil masterminds with their xanatos gambits and complex plots seem to be wasting their time pathetically and spectacularly.

*face palm* So contracting a deadly disease shows the world that you're a man? Ay carumba.

5 years

I don't find that at all shocking...men like being whores, girls don't. plain and sympol.

5 years

Gee, and I thought buying condoms was the proof I was having sex. At least, that's how I deal with the embarrassment (oh com'on, you know it's embarrassing) of buying them.

5 years

I find this sad. An unfortunate side effect of the gender expectations society places on us. Men that are so desperate to live up to an accepted form of masculinity that they're willing to employ a disease as proof of their sexual virility? It might be that their female counterparts would feel the same if girls were not thought to reject their sexuality. So, thank God for that, I guess; at least they're not all for spreading Chlamydia.

5 years

When being told he looked like he'd give them something(stds) by Frank on It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia, Mac said, "I will." Girls should lighten up...
Stds make you cool unless it's aids. Herpes is the one std that will make your social life far more active, and you will suddenly find yourself rock climbing and hitting the gym more often.

5 years

As a male, I am constantly confounded by what's considered "manly"in our world. STD's, treating women like trash, and fighting at the drop of a hat to prove your "manhood"? Please.
I'm also often confused as to WHY so many women are attracted to violent, egotistical jerk-wads who couldn't spell the word macho if they had to.

We live in a male-dominated world and whatever men choose to do is fine, but the same freedom is not granted to women. It doesn't surprise me that the idiot men of this world get an intellectual erection over a disgusting sexually-transmitted disease. After all, some men think ONLY with their penises.